A little Halloween fun for you from Tik Tok user Dimitri Beauchamp. First up, we’ve got Ghostface and Michael Myers doing a lil’ dance to Thriller and if that weren’t cool enough, Jason and Freddy started kickin’ up their feet! Read more
Halloween
Halloween is Canceled – A timely short by Andrew Kasch
The collection of horror shorts from JUST SCARE ME on Vimeo is an artist accountability group where each member has to direct a short horror film in two months or they owe the group $100. A fun idea yielding spooky results, one of which is this three minute parody of the famous Halloween movie franchise by Andrew Kasch. Read more
Nike Drops Two New Spooky Sneakers for Halloween
It’s become an annual tradition for many sneaker brands to release special kicks around Halloween and this year Nike will release two new spooky versions of previous styles, both with glow-in-the-dark soles. A reimagined slimy version of the Air Max 97 and a bone-chilling version of Air Force 1 in orange. Read more
Celebrating Dia de Los Muertos
By now, most everyone in the world is familiar with the Mexican holiday known as Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Most people recognize the beautiful sugar skulls, the colorful clothing and makeup, mariachi bands and celebratory signs – but know little of the actual holiday. Read more
When Jackie Kennedy Dressed As a Black Ghost For Halloween
It was while doing research for yesterday’s post about White House Halloween decorations throughout history that I came upon what has got to be the strangest Halloween costume ever worn by a First Lady. Make that the strangest Halloween costume ever worn by any inhabitant of the White House. Read more
The Trumps Win When It Comes To Being Presidentially Spooky
To compliment POTUS, FLOTUS and this administration in any way whatsoever is a difficult thing for this liberal blog. We are fundamentally opposed to many of their policies and disgusted by much of their rhetoric. That said, when it comes to decorating the exterior of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the 54th President, whose own head looks like a jack-o-lantern, has the Obamas and all the administrations before him beat by a mile. Read more
The Wyeths Penchant for Pumpkin Painting and Halloween
If you’re at all familiar with American Art, you know the work of at least one of the Wyeths. The Wyeths are America’s most famous multi-generational family of artists. Beginning with illustrator and painter Newell Convers “N.C.” Wyeth (1882–1945) in the late 1800s, the family has spawned four generations of reputable artists. The artistic bloodline has continued not only through N. C. Wyeth’s youngest and most famous son, the late Andrew, directly down to Andrew’s son Jamie, but also to Andrew’s sisters Carolyn and Henriette, their spouses and their offspring as well. Read more
The Norton Family Pumpkin Dunk Pics Go Viral
We don’t know these people but we want to. Mark and Sidney Norton of Aylesford, Nova Scotia and their kids have made hundreds of thousands of new friends in the past 48 hours. At least on social media. Their “Family Pumpkin Dunk” photo album posted on Facebook had over 140,000 shares on Facebook as of 4 p.m. Friday. Read more